I couldn't log in here for a whole day and kept getting a 404 error and now everything has changed! What do you all think about it? My first reaction is I hate change, and I wish I had saved a screenshot of the old version just to hold on to for nostalgia.

But I can grow to like this new layout.

Having been on other forums, I know this one was getting outdated. I'll explore it more and this was just an immediate reaction I wrote. I bet other regular users here are surprised as well.

"Empty cognizance of one taste, suffused with knowing, is your unmistaken nature, the uncontrived original state. when not altering what is, allow it to be as it is, and the awakened state is right now spontaneously present."

DawnXEye11 wrote:Think about the change like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

I'm getting use to this butterfly now. I was on another forum back in 2013 with a very similar layout.

Knife wrote:New design looks cool but I'm still trying to find out how to see the subforums I've read without analyzing the username's, topic names, dates,...

If a message is unread the "text icon" on the left will appear red. If there is a red star on it, that means you have written a post in that thread before. If the icon is scrolling it means it's a trending thread that had many replies in a quick succession, just like the fire icon meant in the other version.

I'm use to it too, now. I just wrote my immediate reaction when I made this thread after just a few seconds of seeing it. After a day, you figure it out.

It's got all the same features as before, with 2 improvements that I've noticed so far:

The Members search button actually works now after a few years of only providing an error page.

The advanced search has more parameters to help zero in on exactly what you're searching for.

(I just used the "List=" function to make those numbered bullet points which were in the old version too, but am now relearning. Since it's a lucid dreaming forum, I'll draw a connection to dreaming. Sometimes changing the way you sleep or taking a break from lucid dreaming to start again, gives you fresh eyes, so you don't forget the simple things, and keep learning. Sometimes you have to relearn it, just to keep up the practice. )